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<span style="color:#4B0082">'''''Capital-to-labour rates stagnate'''''</span>
<span style="color:#4B0082">'''''Capital-to-labour rates stagnate'''''</span>


:"Firms have hired workers to produce more to meet the rising demand rather than investing in new capacaties.
:"Firms have hired workers to produce more to meet the rising demand rather than investing in new capacities.


:As a result capital-to-labour ratios and rates of productivity growth have stagnated."
:As a result capital-to-labour ratios and rates of productivity growth have stagnated."

Revision as of 14:38, 7 April 2018

The ratio of a firm's capital assets to its spending on labour.


Capital-to-labour rates stagnate

"Firms have hired workers to produce more to meet the rising demand rather than investing in new capacities.
As a result capital-to-labour ratios and rates of productivity growth have stagnated."
The Treasurer magazine, April 2018, p15 - Kallum Pickering, senior UK economist, Berenberg Bank.


See also